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A Photographic Memory

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Essays

Portraiture

Gallery - Strength in Numbers

Formal group portraits may commemorate a special event, they may be used to keep track of certain individuals by visually identifying them, or they may consist of a community of people from the workplace or the family who wish to chronicle their membership in a particular group. Whatever their original intent, group portraits record relationships that existed at some point in time.

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Composite photograph of a volunteer military company standing at attention on muddy and snowy ground, Victoria, British Columbia, circa 1860-1864

Volunteer military company, formed 1860 to 1862
Victoria, British Columbia, ca. 1860-1864
Photographer: Charles Gentile
C-022626
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Photograph of a group of merchants, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1855

Group of merchants
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1855
Photographer: Wellington A. Chase
C-018097
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Tintype photograph of two men pretending to box, date unknown

Tintype portrait of two unidentified men
Unknown location, unknown date
Photographer: unknown
PA-125199
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Photograph of teachers and male and female students outside a one-room school, Edmonton, Alberta, circa 1896

Students and teachers from Edmonton's first school
Edmonton, Alberta, ca. 1896
Photographer: unknown
C-003862
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Photograph of a group newspaper carriers, men and boys, with bicycles, in front of the Great North Western Telegraph Company office, Montréal, date unknown

Newspaper boys at the Montréal office of the
Great North Western Telegraph Company Messenger Service
Montréal, Quebec, unknown date
Photographer: unknown
PA-117883
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Photograph of six well-dressed women with upswept hairstyles, Toronto, 1908

Staff from the T. Eaton Company
Toronto, Ontario, 1908
Photographer: unknown
PA-123665
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Photograph of two Japanese men wearing suits, 1910

Kyosei Kohashigawa (left) and George Takayesu,
immigrants from Okinawa, Japan
Lethbridge, Alberta, 1910
Photographer: unknown
PA-103537
Source

Photograph of a group of about 25 women upon their arrival in Canada to work as domestic help, Québec, Quebec, circa 1911

Immigrants for domestic services
Québec, Quebec, ca. 1911
Photographer: William James Topley
PA-126101
Source

Photograph of two military men, one tall, the other very short and holding a flute, 1915

Members of the 85th Battalion
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1915
Photographer: MacLaughlan Motion Picture Co.
PA-030243
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Photograph of the morning shift leaving Russell Motor Car Co. Ltd., plant at King and Duncan Streets, Toronto, Ontario, 1917

Morning shift leaving Russell Motor Car Co. Ltd., plant at King and Duncan Streets
Toronto, Ontario 1917
Photographer: unknown
PA-024632
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Photograph of four men, a women and a young girl on board a sailboat, Aklavik, Northwest Territories, date unknown

L.A. Giroux (third from left) and Patsy Klengenberg (far right) with Klengenberg's two brothers,
his wife and his daughter
Aklavik, Northwest Territories, unknown date
Photogapher: Richard S. Finnie
e002342651
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